Jason Kim is chief executive officer of Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company. Founded in 2001, Millennium Space Systems delivers high-performance small satellite prototypes and constellations across orbits for national security space. The company supports missions like missile warning and tracking, tactical ISR and advanced space.
Kim has more than two decades of experience in executive management overseeing small and large satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles, mission payloads, ground systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data processing, command and control, launch, program management, systems engineering, prototyping, assembly and integration, and testing and operations of aerospace and defense systems.
Prior to Millennium Space Systems, Kim was the business development executive at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, where he led a team to fully develop and execute a global and domestic growth strategy. From 2006 to 2019, Kim demonstrated his ability to grow companies as vice president of strategic planning at Millennium Space Systems and as a program manager at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.
Kim served as a program manager in the U.S. Air Force’s Space Superiority Systems Program and Reconnaissance Systems Program offices prior to joining Northrop Grumman. There he gained a deep background in advancing autonomous systems, starting on unmanned aerial vehicles such as the Global Hawk and Predator, and growing to the acquisition and development of first-of-its-kind classified and unclassified space and ground systems.
He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management. Kim served on the board of the National Defense Industrial Association and Space Enterprise Consortium formation committee and is actively serving on the El Segundo Economic Development Corporation board of directors.
Kim lives in Long Beach, California, with his wife, Koeun, and their two children.